Avrum Stroll

Avrum Stroll (February 15, 1921 – September 12, 2013) was an American research professor at the University of California, San Diego. Born in Oakland, California, he was a distinguished philosopher and a noted scholar in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of language, and twentieth-century analytic philosophy.

Publications

Books The Emotive Theory of Ethics. University of California Press, 1954 Introduction to Philosophy. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961 (1972, 1979) Epistemology. Harper & Row, 1967 (Greenwood Press, 1979) Philosophy and the Human Spirit. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973 Philosophy and Contemporary Problems. Richard H. Popkin, Avrum Stroll, Holt Rinehart & Winston, February 1984 Surfaces. University of Minnesota Press, 1988 Philosophy Made Simple by Richard H. Popkin, Avrum Stroll, Made Simple Books, September 8, 1986 (1993), Paperback Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty. Oxford University Press, 1994 Introductory Readings In Philosophy. Avrum Stroll, Richard H. Popkin. Harcourt Brace* Co, November 1997 Skeptical Philosophy for Everyone. Richard H. Popkin, Avrum Stroll. Prometheus Books, January 2002, Hardcover Wittgenstein (Oneworld Philosophers). Oneworld Publications, July 2002 (2007) Did My Genes Make Me Do It? Oneworld Publications, August 25, 2004, Hardcover Sketches of Landscapes. The MIT Press, December 5, 1997, Hardcover Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy. Columbia University Press, September 15, 2001, Paperback Philosophy. Richard H. Popkin, Avrum Stroll Much Ado about Nonexistence. A.P. Martinich, Avrum Stroll. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., June 28, 2007 Hardcover Informal Philosophy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009

Articles Proper Names, Names, and Fictive Objects, The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 95, No. 10 (Oct., 1998), pp. 522–534 Wittgenstein and the Dream Hypothesis. Philosophia 37 (4)